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A speedy overview of the major scientific findings presented at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam (AIDS 2018)

After a decade of phenomenal growth, donor funding for low- and middle-income nations fell 7 percent between 2012 and 2017.

Boasting a 77 percent viral suppression rate, the hard-hit African nation has already surpassed UNAIDS’s epidemic-control targets for 2020.

The U.S. program for global AIDS relief was launched 15 years ago this month. [VIDEO]

In the past, he was accused of misusing data, showing religious bias and discriminating against gay men and people with HIV.

Nominated to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Redfield has close ties with anti-gay and anti-PLHIV activists.

An open letter by more than 200 HIV scientists, researchers and clinicians denouncing the deterioration of U.S. evidence-based policymaking.

Hint: It would slash HIV funds by over $100 million nationally and cause 300,000 deaths each year globally.

The chair of HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) responds to Trump’s budget proposal.

Ramping up voluntary medical male circumcision and treatment coverage appears to have sent the local infection rate tumbling.

With the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief budget up in the air, advocates worry that PEPFAR will cap HIV treatment elsewhere.

HIV scientists and advocates are waging a powerful war against the global epidemic.

One estimate: 9 million years of lost life in South Africa and Ivory Coast in one decade.

“We are at a tipping point in the fight against AIDS, with a quickly closing window of opportunity.”

Maintaining funding at only existing levels, which appears likely, would probably stall progress in combating the virus worldwide.

A massive national campaign to step up testing as well as viral suppression achieved phenomenal results in just five years.